Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen Oude Kriek

Oude Kriek

 

Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen in Lot, Flemish Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪

  Lambic Style - Kriek Regular
Score
7.92
ABV: 5.7% IBU: - Ticks: 393
3 Fonteinen Oude Kriek is the result of macerating hand-picked whole sour cherries on young lambic for at least four months, in a proportion of one kilogram of fruit per litre of lambic. The kriek lambic is then blended again with more young lambic to obtain a minimum intensity of 35% fruit, and is bottled immediately afterwards. These bottles are then stored in our cellars for at least five months so that the kriek lambic can develop into a beautiful, traditional, and refined Oude Kriek. With a pleasant tartness and organic notes of almond and cinnamon as it warms in the glass, 3 Fonteinen Oude Kriek, will age perfectly but may lose some of the vibrant red colours and forest fruit aromas. This unfiltered and unpasteurised lambic is all-natural with no artificial juices, syrups, or sugars added. Traditional Lambic is living, cultural heritage rooted in the Zenne valley!
 

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8

Honey balances a lot of the cherry acidity. Addictive funk as always. Intense cherry notes all over.

Tried from Bottle on 08 Jun 2024 at 18:40


8.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Bottle from a trade. Thanks Matt! Pours a mostly clear ruby with light orange, amber highlights and a small head that dissipates quickly. Lovely notes of cherry skin, stone and tart cherry flesh with oak, must and cobwebs all present. Rich tart cherry notes on the palate with lingering fruit flesh and skin notes. Drying finish. Stellar.

Tried from Bottle on 01 Jan 2024 at 02:22


6

Hapu, happeline, kirsine. Ok.

Tried from Bottle on 17 Aug 2023 at 22:25


7.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

0,375l bottle at home. Bottled 10.02.2022. deep red color, small pink head. smells cherries, cherry pits, marzipan, bit grassy, bit funky, light sewer notes. nice smell. full body, soft carbonation. tastes cherry notes, cherry pits, lactic, grassy, earthy, bit peppery, leathery, not very juicy. finishes dry and medium sour with notes of pepper, cherry notes and some leathery notes. good stuff overall, rather on the dry / peppery side.

Tried from Bottle on 06 Aug 2023 at 14:46


7.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8.5

0,75l bottle at home. Bottled 26.11.2020. deep red color, small white head. smells funky, cherry notes, cherry pits, earthy, grassy. nice to very nice smell. full body, soft carbonation. tastes citric, salty, cherry notes, peppery, grassy, earthy. finishes dry, salty and lightly sour with notes of salt, citrus and peppery notes. I rather like this one, but it tastes rather heavily salted. Not sure if that is just my perception, or its actually a thing. Definitly takes away from the usual 3f lactic fruit sourness.

Tried from Bottle on 24 Jul 2023 at 15:02


9

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Tried from Bottle on 14 Jul 2023 at 23:18





8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

C&C 375 mL bottle from the Beer Trappe, 5/10/23. Good to try this especially considering a variant of their kriek is probably the best beer I've ever had. Almost murky red brown, large tan head, poor retention. Aroma of strong funk, earth, pepper, oak, mushroom, dry and tart cherry. Taste is funk, earth, oak, horseblanket, dry cherry, lemon, herbal. Stong tartness. Very nice.

Tried from Bottle on 11 May 2023 at 02:45